tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2183388327040813760.post2513285804284909404..comments2018-02-11T10:16:50.046+05:30Comments on Ajivaka Wallacian ஆசிவக வாலேசன்: A Sanskrit anthem for MathematicsVarahaMihira Gopunoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2183388327040813760.post-3509628736193684482017-08-05T02:47:35.802+05:302017-08-05T02:47:35.802+05:30Sanskrit was the lingua franca of the scholorly wo...Sanskrit was the lingua franca of the scholorly world in Asia till a few centuries back. Dominic Goodall, a French Indologist based in Pondicherry has succinctly nailed :<br /><br />We hope too that it will remind readers of the diversity of the Sanskrit literary tradition. Sanskrit for many people in India today is associated with conservative social agendas held by those who often think that a return would be desirable to some imaginary golden past of religious righteousness in accordance with precepts that sages of the past expressed in brahminical treatises in Sanskrit. But the Sanskrit literary tradition is in fact astonishingly plural. For while Sanskrit is of course the language of many Hindu religious works, it is also the language of rejoinders and refutations by Buddhists and materialists and many others, indeed of all manner of philosophical debate, and it is at the same time so very much more than that as well. For it is also the language chosen for treatises on every kind of knowledge, both religious and secular, as well as a language of imagination, of poetry in verse and prose, resorted to by countless generations of readers and writers of many backgrounds who wished to receive or to communicate ideas. It is, in short, the language in which the bewilderingly diverse cultural memory of millions is stored. Certainly, it is the language of the relativising moral vision of the Bhagavad-­‐Gîtâ and of the caste-­‐bound strictures of the Manu-­‐smriti; but it is also that of neutral or sometimes decidedly amoral writings on medicine, on gemmology, on archery, on political acumen (the Arthashâstra), on the care of elephants (the Pâlakâpya), on music and stagecraft and on almost anything else you might care to think of besides.<br /><br />From On_The_Bawds_Counsel_2014 – Dominic Goodall (downloadable from Academia.edu).<br />( http://www.efeo.fr/chercheurs.php?code=737&amp;ch=54&amp;l=EN )வன்பாக்கம் விஜயராகவன்https://www.blogger.com/profile/16336764407971993989noreply@blogger.com